smart package manager upchucking

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 02:15:44 UTC 2007


On 4/1/07, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
<wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200704 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
> > I've now cleaned out teh /var/lib/rpm/__db* files and ran rebuilddb twice
> > now, but starting smart --gui, and asking it to update me get this in the
> > log window:
>
> Does "yum update" work correctly?  If it also objects, it would point
> to some rpm db problem.
>
> There seems to be a bug that leaves the rpm db scrambled.  It happened
> a year ago and a month ago.  The first time the db was permanently
> scrambled and I just waited till FC6 came out to reinstall from
> scratch.  The second time rebuilddb seemed to fix everything up well
> enough to allow "yum update" to work.  I always did wonder if I was
> missing something.  Oh well, come f7 I'll reinstall from scratch again
> and that problem will be swept under the rug.
>
> -wolfgang
> --
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht                http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/

Gene,

On my system "rpm -q python" produced two installed versions. Also two
installed versions of python-devel were found. Try removing the older
versions using rpm.




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